Lin Jian originally planned to go back to Jiangning, but since it was better for Gu Wuchen to go to Chongzhou, he didn't feel at ease to leave Xisha Island during this time.

Gu Wuchen, who had just served as the Jiangdong Inspectorate and the Imperial History of the Zuodu, arrived in Chongzhou County on the 23rd to supervise the local military preparations, the administration of officials, and the affairs of the grain route.

Lin Jian changed into a brand-new Tsing Yi regimental leader robe, he was not worried about the security of Chongzhou, he took Ao Canghai and dozens of Jiyun Wuwei, took a boat to land and changed horses to the long pavilion outside the west gate of Chongzhou County to greet him.

In the mid-autumn of the ninth year of Shiwei Chongyue, the sky was high and cool, and the breeze blowing from the southeast carried a slight smell of seaweed, and the sun did not feel hot on the body.

Lin Jian sat on the horse, resting and recuperating, and behind him, Ao Canghai and other more than 40 people wore armor and pressed knives, and sat on the horse with their backs straight. Except for the occasional snort or two of the good horses under the crotch and the flicking of the horse's tail stock, there was almost no movement on their side, revealing the killing aura of Jin Ge.

In addition to Lin Jian and his party, Chen Kun, the magistrate of Chongzhou, and representatives of county officials and squires also stretched their necks in the long pavilion and waited for Gu Wuchen's car to come over.

Chen Kun wiped the fine sweat oozing from his forehead with the wide sleeves of his robe, he glanced at Lin Lian, and saw that he was wearing an official robe, and a wide belt decorated with green jade was tied around his waist.

Li Shuyi, the county household secretary office, was in the team that greeted Chongzhou County, with his hands in his sleeves, hot and drowsy from the sun, thinking that Gu Wuchen would come over quickly, and they could go back to the county early to rest after dealing with errands. His cousin, Li Shutang, who is also the head of the Li family in Dongshe, quietly moved to his side, put his elbow on his back, and asked in a low voice: "Why didn't Hu Zhiyong come over?" ”

"There is not even a good road on the island; Hu Zhiyong broke his foot at night and walked with a cane, so he didn't come," Li Shuyi replied in a low voice, "Do you have something to say to him?" ”

"There's nothing else to do, just ask," Li Shutang pursed his somewhat chapped lips and asked, "According to the inspector Gu Wuchen, is Lord Lin going back to Jiangning with him this time?" ”

"Lord Lin is only temporarily assisting in disaster relief in Chongzhou in the name of raising food, and he is going back to Jiangning after all, whether he will leave this time, I don't know." Li Shuyi said.

"Alas," Li Shutang sighed lightly and said, "Lord Lin has a bad reputation, but he is better than Chen Mazi, everyone followed Chen Mazi to scold him before, and I have known the benefits of others in the past two days." Chen Mazi pulled people to sue him in front of Gu Wuchen this time, but few people answered Chen Mazi......"

There were a few white pockmarks on Chen Kun's face, and everyone called him Chen Mazi in private, Li Shuyi smiled slightly, noncommittal.

Lin Lian's words and deeds were perverse, arrogant and domineering, and before he came to Chongzhou, there were rumors of his evil deeds among the local squires.

Lin Jian took the initiative to rescue the disaster on Xisha Island without going through the place and settle the displaced people, which exposed his unruly and arrogant nature.

No matter how desolate and barren Xisha Island is, or how frequent and bad natural disasters are, the local authorities always do not want to see Xisha Island occupied by outsiders.

There is no need for Chen Kun to agitate, the locality, especially some big clans who had hoped to get involved in the land of Xisha Island, are poking Lin Tie's back and scolding behind their backs.

The Li family of Dongshe originally wanted to take a piece of land on Xisha Island to reclaim it, so they soaked in water soup, and their opinions on Lin Jian were naturally great. Li Shuyi was sandwiched between the two ends, and when the contradiction was at its most intense, Li Shutang, the head of the Li family, even sent someone directly to him and asked him to leave Xisha Island with a pick.

The turn of events is also simple.

Nowadays, the East China Sea pirates are gradually withdrawing from the Taihu Lake basin, and the Yangtze River is one of the main evacuation waterways for the East China pirates.

For those pirates who have not gained much or their greed is not satisfied in the prefectures and counties along the Taihu Lake, the counties on the north bank of the Yangtze River with empty defenses are a good place for these pirates to continue hunting.

The night before yesterday, there was a group of pirates from Jiulongwei landed on the shore to raid the East Society, and after receiving the report, the county closed the city gate, and the military mountain and water village were not sent any soldiers. The person who sent Li Shutang to ask for help thought that his nephew and young master Li Shuyi were on Xisha Island, so they went to Xisha Island for help, and in the end, Xisha Island sent troops to rush to the Li family's mansion to repel the pirates.

At this time, the citizens and squires of Chongzhou County knew that in the past ten days, not counting those who had been repelled and defeated, more than 400 pirates had been directly killed and captured and sent to the Chongzhou County Prison for detention.

It's hard to imagine that if these pirates were allowed to infiltrate Chongzhou County, they didn't know how much harm they would cause to the local area.

The prefectures and counties along the Taihu Lake were so badly devastated this time; At this time, except for those who are stubborn and still insist on their own opinions, everyone else will start to read about Lin Binding.

Although it is very reluctant to occupy Xisha Island to the displaced people, on the other hand, Xisha Island and the displaced people on Xisha Island actually form a barrier to the south of Chongzhou.

In order to welcome Gu Wuchen, he didn't go home for several days, and Li Shuyi returned to his hometown in Dongshe yesterday.

Li Shutang invited him over to speak, discussing how to repay Lin Lian's kindness to the whole clan, and also heard from him a lot of things about Lin Lian's Taihu food raising party.

Due to the previous prejudice and hostility, Lin Tie defeated a main force of pirates in Meixi Lake and attacked Shujiazhai, which colluded with pirates, and recovered Anji County, it is impossible to spread among the squires in Chongzhou, Li Shutang talked with Li Shuyi for a long time last night, and only said at the end: "Bahu is a little more domineering, but this kind of world, only such a strong official, is the blessing of the place!" ”

Everyone knew very well in their hearts that these East China Sea Bandits were only temporarily retreating, and when they squandered all the looted goods, they would soon gather and attack again. Li Shuyi was also very worried, worried that after Lin Jian left, could the safety of Chongzhou County still rely on officials like Chen Kun?

Li Shuyi glanced at Lin Tie, who was sitting on horseback waiting not far away, and the more than forty guards behind Lin Tie were all brave and sharp, revealing a killing aura, which made people dare not approach; In order to welcome Gu Wuchen's arrival, Chen Kun set up more than 100 sword and bow soldiers in front of and behind the long pavilion, but the sword and archers in the county were really different from the guards behind Lin Lian, Li Shuyi thought in his heart that Lin Jian would send three or five people over casually, and he would be able to kill these sword and archers.

Li Shuyi turned his head sideways and looked at the back of Chen Kun's head in Zhixian County, thinking that he was still doing everything possible to drive Lin Jian away from Chongzhou as soon as possible, and the county squires continued to echo him, he was really blind.

Dust rose in the distance, and everyone cheered up, knowing that Gu Wuchen's car was coming.

Although Li Shuyi knew that he didn't have a chance to talk to Gu Wuchen, he still carefully tidied up his clothes.

"The situation is not right, look at Lord Lin's side!" Li Shutang hurriedly pulled Li Shuyi's hand and asked him to look at Lin Lian's side.

Lin Jian and Chen Kun belonged to the kind of disagreement that tore their faces, and they didn't even have a simple greeting after coming over, so they directly took their subordinates to wait for Gu Wuchen's car to come in the field under the long pavilion. Li Shuyi looked sideways, and saw the guards behind Lin Jian turning their horses' heads and riding their horses on the official road, scattering to protect Lin Jian at the core, and several horses rushed towards the flying dust.

"Li Shuyi!"

Li Shuyi saw Lin Lian riding his horse coming over and shouting at him, he hurriedly squeezed out of the crowd and responded, "Lord Lin, what's going on ahead?" ”

"It's impossible for the convoy to raise such a big amount of dust when it moves slowly, I sent a scout to inspect it!" Lin Tieti slipped the reins and said loudly to Li Shuyi, "You guys are ready for an enemy attack!" ”

The military mountain village usually passively prepares for war, but when Gu Wuchen went to the place to supervise the military preparation, the military mountain village did not dare to slack off, and the warship had already put a guard along the river, and besides, Gu Wuchen came over, and the guards must be strict, so the official gentry of Chongzhou County dared to go out of the city to Changting to meet Gu Wuchen, where would they have thought that the robbers would take advantage of this empty time to attack?

Lin Jian didn't care about the official gentry in the long pavilion in a panic, he sat on the back of the horse and frowned and looked into the distance.

If the Donghai Kou who attacked and harassed the prefectures and counties along the Taihu Lake were scattered and unorganized, it would naturally be impossible to bypass the vigilance of the military mountain village and land ashore to attack the Chongzhou gentry who greeted Gu Wuchen in the long pavilion, after all, it would not be profitable for them, but there were luxury families behind them, and the situation would be completely different.

"Lord Lin, is it really the enemy attacking?" Chen Kun was also so shocked that his face was bloodless, and he walked under Lin Lian's horse with a hard head, raised his head and asked in a hurry.

"I'm afraid so," Lin Jian said, carrying a horse and looking at the surrounding terrain, the area around the long pavilion was empty for several miles, except for some farmhouse yards, there was no other shelter, called the county lieutenant Hong Changji, pointed to a courtyard two hundred steps away on the south side of the official road, and said, "The enemy is menacing, the number will not be too small, I will buy you a stick of incense, you and Chen Zhixian led all the officials and gentry and sword archers to retreat to that courtyard to prepare for defense," and raised the horse's head, facing Li Shuyi, and said, "I will send two people to escort you back to the city to report the news, Inform the city to close the gates to prevent pirates from breaking the city......"

As soon as Li Shuyi said yes, two horses galloped out behind Lin Tie, one of whom bent down and hugged Li Shuyi on the back of the horse, let go of the horse's hooves and rushed to the direction of the county seat to warn.

Chen Kun wanted Lin Tie to send someone to escort him back to the city, but when the words came to his mouth, he saw Lin Tie's cold gaze, and he was stunned and didn't say anything, seeing that Lin Tie was calm and majestic, he was both inferior and jealous.

Hong Changji was transferred to Chongzhou to serve as the county lieutenant after the robbery of the boy in Chongzhou last year, and he was a little courageous, and he was panicked when he saw that Chen Kun of the county was panicked, and at this critical juncture, he couldn't wait for him to calm down and make up his mind, so he shouted at the county officials and sword archers to flee to the south of the panicked gentry and gentry, and only made the two sword archers flee south with Chen Kun in their arms.

At this moment, several sentry horses sent to Lin Jian just now sounded their whistles in front of them to send out warning signals, and as soon as they rode back to report the enemy's situation, the others took out their bows and arrows and scattered to the fields on both sides of the official road.

Lin Lian turned his horse's head and joined Ao Canghai and the others on both sides of the official road, and said: "According to the inspection, the convoy will not be too far, there are garrisons along the river, this bandit sneaked into the territory of Chongzhou to make a surprise attack, we only need to delay them for half an hour, it is enough......"

"The officials and gentry of Chongzhou are all here, if they are slaughtered by surprise attack on the luxury family, the faces of the top and bottom will be ugly...... Ao Canghai said, he can also use a strong bow on horseback, take off the bow and hold it in his hand, Le Ma followed closely by Lin Lian's side, and all the warriors surrounded him and Lin Lian to the fields outside the official road.

Fortunately, by the end of August, the rice in the fields had already begun to tassel, and there was no stagnant water, otherwise they would have had to forcibly intercept and attack the enemy on the official road.

"The luxury family wants to lead the troops of Jiangdong County to the east, and the East China Sea Kou stirring in the Taihu Lake is also this goal," Lin Jian said loudly on horseback, "This sound is also a strategy to attack the west, I think the most dangerous thing in the future is the direction of Haozhou!" Once Liu An'er makes a big breakthrough in Haozhou, the situation from Haozhou to the west to Huaishang and north to Zhongzhou will collapse, and at that time, Jiangdong County's troops will inevitably be sucked to the west, exhausted. If the military town under the jurisdiction of the Jiangdong County Admiral's Mansion is disabled, even if Li Zhuo, the tiger, is released, it will be difficult to make a big difference! This is a good idea for the luxury family, and it is a ruthless character who plans all this for the luxury family behind it! ”

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PS: Ask for a red ticket.